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EY report estimates hospitality businesses may be able to reopen terraces between May 10 and 25
Sources among Spanish employers have been speaking to news agency Efe, in an attempt to suggest an appropriate timetable for the reopening of some hospitality businesses, as Spain turns its hand to a phased reduction in lockdown restrictions. They have been careful to emphasise that the dates for some sort of return to business are likely to vary from Autonomous Community to Autonomous Community, depending on how badly each has been affected and the remaining risk in each region. From what...
Spain’s Secretary of State for Tourism and Autonomous Regions agree to coordinate a single protocol to prepare the sector for reopening
Spain's Secretary of State for Tourism, Isabel Oliver, working with Tourism Minister Reyes Moroto, has set out plans for a coordinated approach to tourism planning in the future. An extraordinary meeting of the Tourism Sector Commission chaired by The Secretary of State for Tourism, Isabel Oliver, has in principal agreed to coordinate a single health protocol in the face of COVID-19 to prepare for the reopening of the tourism sector once containment measures can be eased. “Security is going to...
The suggested four phases for a return of Spain’s hospitality industry
The Spanish hospitality industry has started to suggest the phases through which bars and restaurants may be able to start to open again as we all adjust to our new reality in a post confinement Covid-19 world. Throughout Spain up to 680,000 jobs, from a total of 1.7m employed in bars and restaurants, are likely to be directly affected at the most critical moments of the process with a definitive structural loss of 207,000 job already expected. 8.8% of the Spanish workforce is employed in the...
Six Canary Islands Post Office Workers have contracted coronavirus
Unions, and workers rights organisations, the CCOO and the UGT, have this Monday reported "high numbers of contagion and the high percentage of workers affected" among post office employees, with six positive cases detected in the Canary Islands and 57 workers in quarantine, included in the 836 positive cases known among workers nationwide and almost 2,200 Correos workers quarantined as of April 13, according to their latest figures. This data places the Correos workers almost 5 times above...
World Health Organisation report says we are unlikely to have “Immunity passports” any time soon
It is time to start facing facts. There is no test that can yet prove your immunity to the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Any talk of restarting tourism, or for that matter a return to how life was before the outbreak, using so-called "immunity passports", should be seen as little more than wishful thinking at this stage. We will get there, but we should be clear, unless there is a major breakthrough, that can be verified and replicated in record time, the "new normal" is something...
Spain and The Canary Islands start to return to work, with strict security measures #WeStopThisVirusTogether
Workers in "non-essential activities" have been allowed to resume work this Monday throughout Spain and The Canary Islands, specifically for businesses where it would not be possible to resume work online. Security and protection measures and 10 million masks are being distributed on public transport. Following the Easter holidays, and the end of the officially recoverable paid leave, from this Monday the situation returns to how things were for the first 15 days of the state of emergency, so...
Air connections between Canary islands and mainland Spain see 97% reduced demand
The number of passengers, who flew each day to and from the peninsula, has decreased dramatically since the state of emergency was declared, from the 10,622 travellers recorded in March 2019, to the 254 current daily average, we are currently seeing a decrease of more than 97%. The Canary Islands Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing, Sebastián Franquis, has negotiated new restrictions for airlines on air connections with the peninsula, with the aim of increasing control measures and...
Guardia civil interrupts a pool party in Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria
Agents respond to request from the Mogán Policia Local, after complaints from several citizens. The crimes are classified as serious and include fines ranging between €601 and €30,000. The Main Guardia civil Post in the south-western municipality of Mogán have denounced two people, both Italian and resident in Spain, who were participating in a party around the community pool of an apartment complex in the tourist enclave of Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria, along with others who were also...
Canary Islands Government Confirms 1834 cases of COVID-19 coronavirus
The Canary Islands Government Ministry of Health has this afternoon confirmed an accumulated 1834 cases of COVID-19 coronavirus detected since January 31, 2020*. Over this period, a total of 730 people have required hospitalisation, of which 140 have needed ICU care. In addition, the report confirms 379 accumulated discharges and 92 virus related deaths in that period. Likewise, say the Ministry, it should be noted that since Monday, March 30,...
1649 cases of coronavirus COVID-19 detected in the Archipelago, as of 8pm Sunday, April 5
The Canary Islands Government Ministry of Health at 1pm confirmed an accumulated total of 1649 cases of coronavirus COVID-19 detected in the Archipelago, as of 8pm Sunday, April 5, 2020. Cumulatively, a total of 651 people have required hospitalisation and 133 have been admitted in ICU. In addition, a total of 157 cases have been discharged and 85 have died. The total number of health personnel with COVID-19 stands at 336. It should also be noted that, since Monday, March 30, the number of...
